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don't tonty don't comb. t.v. holders first posted a few elections a minute rest in a country still being torn apart by chaos and tribal tensions. the deadline for joining us on his extradition from the u.k. to sweden expires on saturday but the whistleblower remains in the sanctuary of ecuador's embassy awaiting a decision on his asylum plea. and as the u.s. and its allies call for u.n. resolution to allow military intervention against the syrian government we'll look out the striking pattern of nato tactics and foreign civil conflict. levon helm of the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. marina joshua welcome to the program now levy hands are heading to the polls in the
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first national election since modern khadafi was forced out and killed but the lead up to the vote has been marred with tribal clashes and fighting between rival armed groups as our teams lose it often is now reports there are fears the elections will do nothing to stop the violence. this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country. so too are countless armed groups they once fought to oust moammar gadhafi from power today it is they who are in control that tag militias who answer only to their own commanders have grown more powerful than libya's police and army. which mark we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country there while libya is falling into decay almost one year after a nato backed uprising ended gadhafi is rule libyans are taking to the polls for
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the first time in decades the with tripoli's transitional national council too weak to quell ongoing violence many fear that elections will do little to bring peace want to go towards the transitional council which they said that they are going to protect this country if gadhafi gonged there is nothing left they said that libya will have national unity where is it. here is what libyan style democracy looks like armed groups calling for more autonomy stormed a polling station last sunday setting voting lists and ballots ablaze renewed tribal clashes broke out in libya's city of this past week alone saw the deaths of nearly fifty people with hundreds wounded and when members of a local militia seized libya's biggest international airport in broad daylight last month security forces simply stood by and watched. they vary in size from gangs guarding neighborhoods to small de facto armies like the one ins in taiwan which still holds libya's most famous prisoner saif al islam when international criminal
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court staffers tried to visit gadhafi son they too were seized and held captive for nearly four weeks justice militia style may prove to be the biggest obstacle to whatever government libyans elect some groups are boycotting saturday's vote while others aligned with various political parties. a dangerous trend that could deep in existing divisions secularists islamicists even former members of al qaida are among the nearly four thousand people vying for a seat in the country's national congress the choice of candidates is the will during for some that is precisely the problem this is because of their own i don't know. how congress may give the good teams new winners and just. says i think this is the. millions of ng stained fingers will mark libya's first experiment with free elections but as the cases of iraq and afghanistan have shown voting booths alone do not equal a democracy and in the example of libya the line between freedom and anarchy is growing dangerously blurred whatever the outcome one thing is certain if unhappy
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with the result libya's armed groups now know what to do next. we are against i'm a dictator but if history repeats itself we will. seek out of moscow and as they view hold elections the country stop prisoner khadafi son saif al islam awaits trial an international criminal court lawyer who was part of a group detained for alleged spying and later released this week believes there is no chance saif will get a fair trial in his home country but political commentator luke samuel says that the i.c.c. is part of the reason libya is locked in violence. the disunity that we're seeing in libya really has come around as a result of western intervention in the uprising of which the i.c.c. was very much a part of the r.c.c. prosecutions are by their very nature political you know the i.c.c. is used as a mechanism for trying those individuals which may lend some political authority to
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the interventions of the west and that's why the i.c.c. is so often used in these interventions in order to bolster or thirty of western institutions and it's also the fact that the n.t. see how it's all forty on the ground bolstered by these indictments the indictments issued against the gadhafi family lent artificial cohesion to the rebellion on the ground a rebellion which has always been characterized by a very disparate set of material concerns on the ground and what the i.c.c. effectively did was artificially give that rebellion a sense of unification an artificial sense of political purpose and that in the end is proved extremely destabilizing because as we've seen now libya is anything but unified in fact it looks as though it may revert i mean it's in danger of reverting to the kind of city state set up that we had in the nineteen fifties that line to
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buy the case highest court for join us sanders extradition to sweden runs out on saturday but the whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of the ecuadorian embassy in london until a decision on his request for asylum in south america has made our sara further has more from outside a soundest place of refuge. it's been nearly two and a half weeks now the julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london after presenting himself on the nineteenth of june seeking asylum now today is the deadline for his extradition to sweden of his appeal to the supreme court in the against a sexual assault allegations failed so would have been the day we could have seen julian assange is put on a plane and sent to sweden and of course the big. legal team have always said is that he would be then. gets in very strict free trial detention conditions and the overriding fear is that it would make it much easier for him to be extradited on to
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the u.s. but of course that's not going to happen today because julian assange took that dramatic step to seek asylum and you can see here today a number of his supporters still keeping vigil outside the ecuadorian embassy for the banners of the poor for about seventeen days on a daily vigil we're hearing solitary read a chartreuse war resister an all star standing with the ecuadorian people in the heart that i might the right decision which is drive the car short of a real sense among his supporters that this decision and the handling of his legal case it was a real failure for the u.k. in terms of defending human rights well now at the same time that you're in a sound is fighting his fifth battle against extradition we see wiki leaks once again coming into the spotlight and taking the headlines with a dramatic revelations over a new big leak the syria files more than two point four million e-mails that the
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group say that they have that they're going and have already indeed started releasing and that the inner workings of not just the syrian government but also western countries and western companies as well and that's going to be released in stages over the next. because of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable days well the syria files even bigger than that eight times bigger in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data and already we're seeing some of the revelations from not being explored so wiki leaks once again showing really that it is still able to do what it does best despite the fact that to the innocent is. continue. what you want to live from moscow and so i have for this hour and inside into paraguayans plight the impact of the president but also from power earlier this month spreads across latin america we bring you the opinion of
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a regional aspirant plus. at a time when many people would argue that the local financial system is on the brink of collapse and that it might be fundamentally flawed it seems that these teenagers from the streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out party explores cesspool mold all bodil rather of a far reaching banking system and a very unlikely place an indian shelter for run away teenagers. now more than one hundred nations supporting the syrian opposition have urged tougher action by the u.n. against president bashar asad at a meeting in paris the u.s. and its allies called for chapter seven of the u.n. charter to be enacted allowing economic sanctions and if necessary military intervention in syria as she can explains the west backing of the syrian rebels as it goes of another conflict. syrian rebels have rejected the peace plan that was put forward by the international community they made it clear that violence would
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continue so far the coverage of the conflict in syria has been so one sided that it seems the rebels could get away with anything the media in the us and in the west in general have focused only on what the us government has been doing almost entirely leaving out the atrocities act of terror committed by the rebels presenting a completely black and white picture but a conflict like the one in syria is never black and white and never simple the slanting of the coverage reminded some of former yugoslavia before nato when bombing former yugoslavia at the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. the media focused on crimes committed by the serbs completely washing down the atrocities committed against the serbs with me here is jim the director of the american council for casa paul so i thank you very much for joining us thank you what are the similarities you see between what's going on in syria and what having going on in yugoslavia inform you that there are similarities i would say on all three crucial levels as we look at syria one has to do with the international
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system the rule of law the role of the security council another one has to do with the status of sovereign states and how you treat a sovereign state that has an insurgency within its borders and the third thing is what we might call on the ground when you take a complex historical circumstance with communities historic grievances as you said in your introduction atrocities and violence of that are committed on both sides in conflicts like this and attribute only to one side what you do is you to you you come up with the concept of do you fit the facts into the concept you don't take a step back in good faith look at what's really going on look at the suffering of people on both sides and how in good faith can you pour water on the fire to try to calm things down instead we do as you find a smoldering fire you pour gasoline with words like genocide and so forth and then try to set. the stage for what you really want which is a victory for one side the side you've chosen and the utter destruction of the
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other side you know and one of the side lights of this in both kosovo and syria is something that's important to me is the fate of the christian population and why is it that in the name of fighting terrorism and promoting democracy and all this other nonsense the united states always seems to find itself on the side of jihad its elements engaging in terrorism with the predictable results for the christian population as we saw in kosovo when half the christian population with iraq's christian serbs had to flee the province and thousands of them were killed by the liberators the cause why a british army. i think that there are i think there are a couple of different explanations for it i think one is our cozy relationship with saudi arabia the gulf states that we want to show we're on the side of our friends who are so important to us when it comes to frankly money and international commerce i think by the way that even in a less dramatic form we're making a similar mistake when it comes to egypt and basically adopting the muslim brotherhood is our chosen voice of democracy in egypt which is also the same force
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that stands to benefit in syria if if our policy is successful. thank you mr texas we heard it many times the first casualty of war is the truth and we see it happening time and time again that media urge to simplify matters and to eventually push a certain agenda becomes a weapon in itself a weapon which creates victims of its own in washington i'm going to second. russia has rebuffed u.s. criticism of what it calls moscow support of the syrian regime saying washington lacks basic understanding of the situation moscow insists it doesn't back and a party in a conflict that's hafter the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said russia and china must pay a price for you are going to push for regime change in syria or the analyst rick ross of police clinton has passed a diplomatic line in her remarks i will tell you very. impartial actor in this of
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course actively engaged in and effort stepped off of the government in syria for what she said because of the note of intimidation and grandkids are the correct word i think of this for. reasons of new. irresponsible statements like the eight years on thing to be honest with you i don't remember ever hearing during the very most difficult period of the cold war i should hope that this is a point at which one seriously us to draw a line there has been you know unilateral lawless reckless behavior by the united states and its allies over the past twelve years the war against iraq libya and all the actions against syria this is perhaps the last stand for defending genuine international law and the sovereignty of nations. well we're always eager to know your take on all the stories we're covering and today we're asking what you think about u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton slamming russia and china over the syrian crisis let's take a look at the side now as you can see so far the majority believe the move points
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to the frustration of the west over the or hampered military drive fourteen percent are sure it undermines the geneva peace accord preventing any joint progress while another of fourteen percent think the harsh rhetoric was aimed at securing more public support for president obama and the less that it can save you are of the opinion that the words had a point i think russia and china are stalling these efforts so do us know what you think by logging on to r.t. dot com. it is well has pulled its diplomatic staff after being accused by paraguayan of meddling and its internal affairs says former president for nando lugo was impeached last month blamed for a deadly crackdown on farmers neighbors have distanced themselves but political analysts say again so gucci believes it's america's influence in the region negatively affecting let in america. paraguayans suffered a
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a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when its democratically elected president for number new goal was ousted in a twenty four hour impeachment trial it must be the fastest impeachment in modern history there are such agencies as us aid the united states agency for international development and it all has a lot of other aspects that spillover outside of the paraguay because paraguayans considered together with bolivia the geo political heartland of south america so american control over power of wife who also limits brazil's exit towards the pacific as a bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time is again promoting after that we american free trade association with its traditional allies in our region mexico panama colombia peru and chile so we would serve as a pacific wall against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in the commom ally
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within the bric countries but very much so even to a certain extent a political or a potential political ally of russia and china specifically. however there is always more to find at r.t. dot com online right now. saying is lauder an american pilot provides his rendition of a popular head the latest act of questionable conduct by u.s. forces in afghanistan. sanctioned down scrapped st petersburg bans a massive gay rally disappointing over a thousand activists who were expected to take to the streets discover the details on our website.
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our social media website wants to censor your posts it's aimed at blocking water believes are racist and of fans of obviates bought will a compromise the public's freedom of speech the president is in new york to find
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out the opinions of people there. twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems racist is it ok for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be sad but this week let's talk about that favorite thing all right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it down so we're live free over here in new york where we live free but doesn't the racist person live free to post whatever they want but do you have kids do you worry about them being exposed to racist comments. was that that's not good yeah but you can express whatever you want to anyway you should be able to express your freedom yeah you might not agree with raised this them but do you agree that
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people should be able to say what they want not in a social networking site like i know why not this is just going to tell us a people should keep their own comments to themselves but that's the whole point of twitter is reading it out not not something way about what it was that's what it's not ok to use to say whatever you want now the internet you shouldn't just be able to say whatever you want no says the races though if you write something it doesn't have to be racist even though that the words are sometimes you can write some things that are racist but but the words are not so it depends on the human side how you interpreted it you block the negative in the drama but you're also preventing free speech right there so i guess it's a tossup so is it ok for twitter to decide what stays and goes and says their company. again they probably have to have a canal it's a company that judges it because who are they to say what their website true true
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but who are they say what's raising what's not there do you think twitter hiding bag. kind of racist content is going to make a difference and help people not be racist or is it racist is just going to persist it's going to happen we've changed it not enough yeah it's i think that's their way of preventing some form of cyber bullying but it's not going to change anything whether or not you think it's right for social media companies to censor content on their sites the bottom line is this wouldn't be an issue if people would just be better citizens and doubt being raised. a bus crash or any rain has laughed at least fourteen people dead and twenty two others injured all the passengers on board where russian the bus was carrying religious believers on a trip around some local sacred sites the accident happened to half past six in the morning when the driver reportedly lost control and the vehicle flipped over the emergencies ministry says some of those injured in the crash will be taken to
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russia. taking a look now at some other stories from around the world a fundamentalist catholic ransacked them burned a school in western mexico claims children it's committed by the church and sees schools as the work of the devil hundreds card in setting the building ablaze last august a call the demand of their children to be allowed to wear releases robes and set of school uniforms. lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach presidents trying to possess a prime minister and the ruling coalition accuse him of breaching the constitution and overstepping his authority was asked fell out of favor with the public after passing several rounds of austerity cuts he was close to being impeached in two thousand and seven but survived a public vote he faces the next referendum on his removal three weeks. to the kids in a shelter for homeless children in new delhi have a few lessons for the world's international bankers they are saving for
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a brighter future using their very own financial system ideas for a shooter has all the details. in this homeless shelter for runaway teens in new delhi a tiny self starting democracy has sprouted up with when they will so they took me in and i started going to school which i enjoyed very much. the residents like twelve year old mohammed shah have created an unlikely society where everything from health care to banking has been initiated implemented secure did by the kids themselves do you have and i go there are children who have a job i'm going to pose with their money. and even the children who need to school save their money. says these kumar's peers elected him to be bank manager of this branch of the children's development because son or treasure that serves around nine thousand street children across south asia and has seventy seven branches in the region many of the runaway teens now have
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a place to safe keep their money safe for the future. development or welfare advances to invest in starting businesses or buying books first school. bonds that would have taken in advance three times the first five hundred rupees to boy a school uniform then at zouk another one thousand rupees because my mother was sick and the third saima borrowed some money to help my father open the shop. the kids have a monthly meeting where they review applications for those who wish in advance and then based on their track record of saving and earning they decide who to grant the advances to and how quickly they need to pay it back at a time when many people would argue that the global financial system is on the brink of collapse and that it might be fundamentally flawed it seems that these teenagers from the streets of new delhi have the whole thing figured out they hold everyone from account managers to clients accountable for their financial decisions i try i got through meetings and discussions over lunch the children have taught
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each other how to save and invest in their future. i think if we don't put the money in the bank then we tend to spend on unnecessary things and we see the money so when we save the money it can be used to do important things that may come up in the future like buying new clothes but it's a sense of responsibility and survival that has shocked the supervisors of the shelters and one that they say leaders around the world might want to take a look at it can be the supermodel's in this whole thing because they know how to save money they know how do you want to live as money for the best because they privatized that leaves which we as actively don't really. know how much shah is hoping that he can save the money he makes selling bottles of water at night to put towards his education so he can one day accomplish his goal of becoming a police man i get to be a minute thank you for the future as i want to save money and do something useful
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with it when the time comes to be beat. yes but i believe from the streets of india's capital this runaway teen believes that saving and determination can allow him to achieve his dream of preassure either r t new delhi india. you have today the house i'll be back with we have our top stories in just a few moments stay with us.
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